I guess we don’t have enough homegrown technology that we have to depend on others, but why would we depend on a known enemy.? Maybe we could encode some of the stuff we send to them. Or better yet, maybe we should just not do any business with them & move them out of ANY business we are currently doing with them. They obviously can’t be trusted.
Our chip making capability has been largely offshored of the last 30+years and frankly, a lot of commodity chips like memory chips have been made overseas for much longer
That said, even US produced chips have bee found to have hidden malware embedded in the chip artwork
I was once an advisor to companies implementing their China policies and I warned about just this kind of risk along with a bunch of other risks .
My advice was contrary to that of the corporate consensus then in vogue and also to the advice of other advisors and my contrarian views on the downside risk (now completely confirmed ) of ill advised offshoring policies pretty much cost me my consulting biz.